Application of analytic discourse techniques to clinical practice is relatively recent. This
book's contributors begin with the notion that systematic examination of discourse provides a …

Eighty-one right-handed middle-aged subjects (64 non-brain-damaged and 17 right
hemisphere stroke) were assessed on a series of verbal comprehension and spoken …

Background: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHBD) has been linked to a diverse range of
discourse-level communicative deficits generally based on subjective impressions …

The aim of this study was to evaluate linguistic skills of aphasic speakers in a clinical
discourse. Fifteen aphasic speakers were selected from a cohort of 486 stroke patients, and …

Eight adults with right hemisphere damage (RHD) and seven non-brain-damaged (NBD)
matched controls participated in first-encounter conversations. The incidence and nature of …

The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community analyses the
interactions of immigrants within an Irish reception centre for asylum seekers to highlight the …

Persons with brain damage show deviant patterns of co-speech hand movement behaviour
in comparison to healthy speakers. It has been claimed by several authors that gesture and …

A range of studies on language use suggests that there is a general contrast between two
kinds of discourse processing. Based on a review of these studies, which rest on a number …

Introduction Despite a growing emphasis on discourse processing in clinical neuroscience,
relatively little is known about the neurobiology of discourse production impairments …

The role of right hemisphere dysfunction in schizophrenia is reviewed in this chapter. Four
categories of evidence are examined: neuropsychological analogies, neuropsychiatric …